The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-04-30
Maryland Affairs.
The drug firm of Coleman & Rogers, Bal

The drug firm of Coleman & Rogers, Bal
timore, has made deed of trust.
The grand jury of Anne Arundel county
found forty five true bills, mostly for violation
of the oyster law.
Two whites and seven blacks have been
sent to the Penitentiary from Somerset county
the present term of the court.
Bishop Paret visited the two Episcopal
Churches in Annapolis last Sunday. In one
he confirmed class of 46 and in the other
class of 25.
The barn and stable of Sheriff Anderson,
near Annapolis, were burned by an incendia-
ry FIRE on Tuesday, together with an OK, eight
horses and so tons of hay.
An IS, 900 hotel at Bishopville, Worcester
county, WAS burned down last Friday night,
also l.. H. Buntings store adjoining, making
total loss of about $4,000.
William Wagner, convicted of manslaughter,
has been pardoned out ofthe Baltimore county
Jail by Gov. Lloyd, upon the petition of the
States attorney and other citizens.
The Western Maryland Railroad will have
to condemn a strip of land in Chambersburg,
Pa, ON which to build additional siding for
its increasing business at that point.
VIM. Armstrong, of Baltimore, recently
secretary of the Firemens Insurance Com
pany, was arrested last Friday, charged with
embezzling 1000 from the company.
The ex- Confederates in Baltimore propose
to give the survivors of Picketts division a
luncheon on their passage through that city TO
Gettysburg, Pa, about the LIST of July.
Consul General Raine has been granted
short leave of absence by the Secretary of
State, and will soon leave his post at Berlin
for short visit to his Baltimore home.
Upton C. Weaver has filed bill in equity
for a divorce from his wife, Elizabeth c.
Weaver, in the Circuit Court of Washington
county. This is the fourth divorce suit
brought inthat court since the first of January.
Capt. Robert Spedden, wel-known and
highly respected citizen of Dorchester county,
died at his residence, on Cook Point, on
Tuesday night, at the advanced age of 81
years.
Peter F. Cockey died at his residence, Mel
rose, near Cockeysville, Baltimore county,
last Friday night, in the 18th year of his age.
Mr. Cockey belonged to one of the Oldest
families in Maryland.
Charles Kaiser, Jr., the tenor, has returned
to his home in Baltimore, from Europe, after
an absence of three years, spent in studying
and singing in several of the larger cities of
Germany, Holland and England.
The Salvation Army of Frederick have
purchased lot of ground on the southwest
corner of Bentz and Fourth streets, and will
erect handsome building thereon, in which
to hold their religious exercises in the future.
The grocery and liquor store of William
| Renshaw, situated on the Baltimore county
side of Ellicott City, was entered on Monday
night and robbed of a quantity of whisky,
cigars and other articles, valued at about $50.
Howard Thomas, aged twelve years, son of
Edward Thomas, of Cambridge, had his left
hand entirely severed near the wrist by the
accidental fall of heavy cleaver used for
splitting barrel slaves at the factory of the
Cambridge Manufacturing Company, in East
Cambridge, on Monday afternoon.
James II. Mari, a native of Charles county,
died in Washington on Monday, in his 10th
year. He was appointed to clerkship in the
Postoffice Department in 1881, and in 1869
became chief clerk to the First Assistant
Postmaster General, position he had held
continuously ever since. He was nearly Sc
years in the service.
James Graham, colored, has been arrested
for cutting out the tongue of mare owned by
| Mrs. Mary E. Hax, in the 18th district of Bal
timore county. After arrest Graham acknowl-
edged his guilt, but gave as an excuse that
the mare kicked him. How nice would the
whipping post, with about thirty lashes twice
year for two years, come in!
The steamer Captain Miller, of the Centre
vile and Corsica River Steamboat Company,
was burned at her wharf at GentreVille Land
ing early last Saturday morning. The hull
and machinery are in good condition. All
the woodwork was entirely consumed. No
| lives were lost, and no one was seriously in
jured.
Rev. L. P. Phelps and Rev. Tilotson A.
Morgan, both prominent members of the Bal.
timore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
! Church, died this week. The former died in
Washington, d. c., of heart disease, aged y,
and the latter at Mt. Washington, Baltimore
county, aged II. Both were natives of Vir-
ginia.
Deborah Bratcher, respectable colored
woman, died near Massey's, Kent county,
rather suddenly, and after the funeral suspi
cion of poisoning was aroused. Her grand
daughter was suspected, and her disappearance
after the interment was still stronger evidence.
The body has been eyhpmed and an inYesti
CATION is going on.
Mrs. Mary E. Wilson, of Baltimore. wife Of
DR.. w. W. Wilson, committed suicide last
Saturday. She took corrosive sublimate. at
tempted to cut her throat, and jumped head
foremost from a second-story window to a
cellar way. She had been in bad health, and
her mind was affected on religious matters.
The president and managers ofthe Frederick
County Agricultural Society who were elected
in January last still hold on to the books of
the organization and continue to act as its
officers, Notwithstanding the adoption of a
new constitution in April and the election OF
new set of officials The society has now,
| two cote IF afsoarc and tha oourfc
will probably be called upon shortly to decide
which are entitled to act as such.
Philip Laemmert, aged twenty. one, was
shot in The saloon ofJohn L. Hermit, at Frost
burg, on Wednesday night, dying few min
utes afterwards The shot is said to have
been fired by young man named Montgom
| cry Mcmillan, and to have been intended for
man named Stewart, striking Laemmert by
mistake. A warrant was issued for McMil-
lan's arrest. He was formerly deputy sher-
if and well-known baseball player.
The case of A. Booth & Co. against Cover
nor Lloyd and other members Of the Board
of Public Works. for damages for the seizure
of oyster barges, &C., was before the United
States Circuit Court, on Tuesday. After ar
gument upon demurrer to the defendants
second plea, which the court sustained, it was
arranged to go to trial on the merits of the
| case on tuesday next, before the court with
out jury. Messrs. johnson & johnson for
plaintiffs, Attorney General Roberts and ex-
| Attorney General Gwinn for respondents.
| A fire broke out ON Thursday night of last
week in one of the outbuildings on the Fairlee
farm, Kent county, belonging to I. w. Eliason
and tenanted by Henry Bramble. All the
family Of Mr.. Bramble and the hands on the
place had retired for the night when the fire
caught, so that it had made great Roadway
before it was discovered. brick stable,
three corn cribs, large hay house and shed,
were all burned to the ground, together with
ten head of horses in the stables. Only four
of the fourteen horses in the stables could be
saved.
Certificate of incorporation of the Balti-
more and Western Railway Company has
been fled for record at the executive depart
ment, Annapolis. The incorporates are
Henry G.. Davis, Stephen B. Elkins and T.
B. Davis, of Mineral county, West Virginia,
and Edwin w. S. Moore, VIM. J. Read, VIM
H. German and VIM. Pinkney Whyte. of Ma
ryland and the the capital stock is $1,000
600, divided into 10000 shares at the par
value of $50 each. The corporation is formed